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From '' Kicking Against The Pricks ''
Label: Mute -- CD STUMM 28
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 18 Aug 1986

Tracklist
A1 Muddy Water
A2 I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
A3 Sleeping Annaleah
A4 Long Black Veil
A5 Hey Joe
A6 The Singer
B1 All Tomorrow's Parties
B2 By The Time I Get To Phoenix
B3 The Hammer Song
B4 Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
B5 Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
B6 The Carnival Is Over

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Original Lefty Frizzell version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50k18gL76AU

Most known version by Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pALSKcWcVEk

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"Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded in Nashville by Lefty Frizzell and produced by Don Law.

A saga song, "Long Black Veil" is told from the point of view of an executed man falsely accused of murder.
He refuses to provide an alibi, since on the night of the murder he was having an affair with his best friend's wife, and would rather die and take their secret to his grave than admit the truth.
The chorus describes the woman's mourning visits to his gravesite, wearing a long black veil and enduring a wailing wind.

Cover versions

The biggest cover version was a No. 26 country hit by Sammi Smith in 1974.

The song has also appeared on landmark albums by Johnny Cash and The Band in 1968, and charted again in 1999 with the Dave Matthews Band, who performed the song live with Emmylou Harris at a Johnny Cash tribute concert.
Early in her career, Joan Baez incorporated the song into her live repertoire, and recorded it twice.
The song was performed by Bruce Springsteen on his 2006 Seeger Sessions Band Tour.
The chorus is frequently sung by Bruce Hornsby during live performances of his song "White Wheeled Limousine".
It was most recently covered by Rosanne Cash on her album The List. A version by Scottish rock band Nazareth was never released on an album, but is played at live concerts.

Mick Jagger also recorded a version of "Long Black Veil" with The Chieftains for that group's album of the same name.

Hit singles

1959 Lefty Frizzell, U.S. Country single #6
1974 Sammi Smith - U.S. Country single #26

Tracks on hit albums

1962 The Kingston Trio, New Frontier - U.S. Pop album #16
1962 Burl Ives, The Versatile Burl Ives! - U.S. Pop album #35
1963 Joan Baez, Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2 - U.S. Pop album #7, U.K. album #15
1965 Johnny Cash, Orange Blossom Special - U.S. Pop album #49
1968 Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison - U.S. Pop album #13, U.S. Country album #1, U.K. album #8
1968 The Band, Music from Big Pink - U.S. Pop album #30
1970 Joan Baez, One Day at a Time - U.S. Pop album #80
1972 New Riders of the Purple Sage, Gypsy Cowboy - U.S. Pop album #85
1983 John Anderson, Wild & Blue - U.S. Pop album #58
1995 The Chieftains with Mick Jagger (vocal), The Long Black Veil - U.S. Pop album #22, U.K. album #17
1999 Mike Ness, Cheating at Solitaire - U.S. Pop album #80
1999 Dave Matthews Band, Listener Supported - U.S. Pop album #15

Other

1960 The Country Gentlemen, Country Songs, Old and New
1960 Carl Mann
1963 Jerry & Sarah, Top of the Tangent, Palo Alto 02-02-1963 Jerry Garcia and his first wife Sarah.
1964 Johnny Williams and The Jokers
1968 Wolfe Tones, Rights Of Man
1969 The Byrds, Boston Tea Party,
1969 Johnny Cash
1970 Bill Monroe, Kentucky Bluegrass
1971 Looking Glass
1980 Jimmy Ellis aka Orion
1981 Taco
1982 Berlin
1984 Marianne Faithfull, Rich Kid Blues
1984 Baby Opaque featuring Ian Mackaye.
1986 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kicking Against the Pricks
1988 Cameo
1988 The Proclaimers
1992 Michael Nesmith
1995 Don Walser
1995 Don Williams
1997 Sally Timms, Cowboy Sally
2000 Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice, The Pizza Tapes
2000 Daryle Singletary
2000 John Duffey
2002 Jason & the Scorchers, Wildfires + Misfires
2002 Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Distance Between.
2003 Johnny Cash, Unearthed
2003 The Pine Valley Cosmonauts (vocals by Sally Timms & Edith Frost), The Executioner's Last Songs: Volumes 2 & 3
2003 Rob Coffinshaker
2003 Harry Manx, Johnny's Blues: A Tribute To Johnny Cash
2004 Ani Difranco, Gillian Welch and Greg Brown
2004 Dave Matthews Band, The Gorge
2005 Tim O'Brien, Fiddler's Green
2006 Mike Connolly
2006 Crooked Fingers, Like a Version 2 (Australia)
2006 Richard Hawley
2007 Justin Mack, 'Long Road Home'
2007 Uncle Douglas
2007 Stoney LaRue, Live at Billy Bob's Texas
2007 David Gray
2007 Professor Louis and the Crowmatix (The Spirit of Woodstock)
2008 Diamanda Galas, Guilty Guilty Guilty
2009 Aunt Martha, Candymaker Tour NYC
2009 Razzy Bailey, Damned Good Time, (with Johnny Cash)
2009 Rosanne Cash (Feat. Jeff Tweedy)
2009 Caroline Herring, Golden Apples of the Sun
The Stanley Brothers
Bobby Bare
Chris Ledoux
Banks & Shane
Bob Dylan
Nazareth
Jimmy Kelly